2- "I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't carewhat the facts are." -President George Bush 1988 demonstratinghis patriotism by excusing an act of cold-blooded mass-murder by the U.S.Navy. On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shot down an Iraniancommercial airliner. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed.The plane was on a routine flight in a commercial corridor in Iranianairspace. The targeting of it by the U.S. Navy was blatantly illegal. Thatit was grossly immoral is also obvious. Except to a patriot.]

3- "To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic-militarysupremacy)... we will have to dispense with all sentimentality andday-dreaming.... We should cease to talk about vague and... unrealobjectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standard anddemocratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to dealin straight power concepts.... The less we are then hampered by idealisticslogans, the better." -George Kennan State Department 1948]

4- "If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs(surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own theirairspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's greatabout America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lotof oil out there we need." -U.S. Brig. General William Looney (InterviewWashington Post, August 30, 1999) mass-murder of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children during10,000 sorties by American/British war criminals in the first eight monthsof 1999]

5- "The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."-Ramsey Clark

HO CHI MINH was a hero of the 20th century

6- "I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollarsoaked fingers out of the business of these nations so fullof depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of theirown. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent typebecause the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peacefulmethod, at least what they get will be their own, and not the Americanstyle, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down theirthroats by Americans." -General David Sharp

7- "We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation isto occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for ourinvestments. This tells why American helicopters are being used againstguerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation hastaken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges andpleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment."-Martin Luther King, Jr. Riverside Church New York City April 4, 1967]

8- "Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world -particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by theelite-owned media." -Ralph McGehee CIABASE;The Crisis of Democracy Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA

9- "The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training togovernments and armed groups that have committed torture, politicalkillings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world."-Amnesty International October 1998]

10- "We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completelycontrolled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Governmentof free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of themajority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups ofdominant men." -Woodrow Wilson

11- "We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at thesource, of at least a proportion of the oil which we require." - BritishRoyal Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill's policy towards Iraq,1913

12- "What we want to have in existence, what we ought to have beencreating in this time is some administration with Arab institutions whichwe can safely leave while pulling the strings ourselves; something thatwon't cost very much, which the Labour government can swallow consistentwith its' principles, but under which our economic and political interestswill be secure. If the French remain in Syria we shall have toavoid giving them the excuse of setting up a protectorate. If they go, orif we appear to be reactionary in Mesopotamia, there is always the riskthat Faisal will encourage the Americans to take over both, and itshould be borne in mind that the Standard Oil company is very anxious totake over Iraq." - Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Head of the British government's'India Office Political Department.' 1919

13- "If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned withAnglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the restof the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. Thiswould have a better propaganda effect." - Private memo from The Council ofForeign Relations to the US State Department, 1941

14- "Our strategic and security interests throughout the world will bebest safeguarded by the establishment in suitable spots of 'PoliceStations', fully equipped to deal with emergencies within a large radius.Kuwait is one such spot from which Iraq, South Persia, Saudi Arabia andthe Persian Gulf could be controlled. It will be worthwhile to go toconsiderable trouble and expense to establish and man a 'Police Station'there." - British Foreign Office, policy memo, 1947

15- ?We have about 60% of the world?s wealth but only 6.3% of its?population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy andresentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern ofrelationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury ofaltruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vagueand unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards anddemocratisation. The day is not far off when we are going to have to dealin straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealisticslogans, the better." - George Kennan, former Head of the US StateDepartment Policy Planning Staff, Document PPS23, 24th February 1948

16- "I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heardexisted in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a landof freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime."-Albert Einstein, 1947

18- "Strikes at population targets (per se) are likely not only to createa counterproductive wave of revulsion abroad and at home, but greatly toincrease the risk of enlarging the war with China and the Soviet Union.Destruction of locks and dams, however ? if handled right ? might offerpromise. It should be studied. Such destruction does not kill or drownpeople. By shallow-flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespreadstarvation (more than a million) unless food is provided ? which we couldoffer to do ?at the conference table?." - John McNaughton, US StateDepartment Vietnam policy, as quoted in ?The Mentality of the BackroomBoys.? Article by Noam Chomsky, 1973

19- "The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which showsits? determination to continue to be a world power." - Henry Kissinger,post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975

20- "It would not have been possible for a political party to be morecommitted to a national home for the Jews in Palestine than was Labour." -Harold Wilson, former British Labour Party Prime Minister, 1981

21- "One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just abouteverything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn'tupset my breakfast at all." - Ronald Reagan, former US President, baskingin the triumph that was the US invasion of Grenada, 1983

22- Q. "Mr. President, have you approved of covert activity to destablisethe present government of Nicaragua?" A. "Well, no, we're supporting them,the - oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm sorry, I was thinking of ElSalvador, because of the previous, when you said Nicaragua. Here again,this is something upon which the national security interests, I just - Iwill not comment." - Ronald Reagan, former US President, Washington pressconference, February 13th, 1983, as quoted by John Pilger in 'Heroes'

23- "After seeing 'RAMBO' last night, I know what to do the next time thishappens." - Ronald Reagan, former US President, as reported by DailyExpress, July 2nd, 1985

24- "Aerosol DU (Depleted Uranium) exposures to soldiers on thebattlefield could be significant with potential radiological andtoxicological effects. Under combat conditions, the most exposedindividuals are probably ground troops that re-enter a battlefieldfollowing the exchange of armour-piercing munitions. We are simplyhighlighting the potential for levels of DU exposure to military personnelduring combat that would be unacceptable during peacetime operations.... a low level alpha radiation emitter which is linked tocancer when exposures are internal, chemical toxicity causing kidneydamage. Short term effects of high doses can result in death, whilelong term effects of low doses have been linked to cancer. Ourconclusion regarding the health and environmental acceptability of DUpenetrators assume both controlled use and the presence of excellenthealth physics management practices. Combat conditions will lead to theuncontrolled release of DU. The conditions of the battlefield, and thelong term health risks to natives and combat veterans may become issues inthe acceptability of the continued use of DU kinetic penetrators formilitary applications." - Excerpts from the July 1990 Science andApplications International Corporation report: ' Kinetic Energy PenetratorEnvironment and Health Considerations', as included in Appenix D - US ArmyArmaments, Munitions and Chemical Command report: 'Kinetic EnergyPenetrator Long Term Strategy Study, July 1990' These documents stateclearly and equivocally that the US army was well aware of the radioactiveand toxic dangers of Depleted Uranium ammunition long before the firstshots of the war were fired.

25- "We do not have any defence treaties with Kuwait, and there are nospecial defence or security commitments to Kuwait." - Margaret Tutweiller,US State Department spokeswoman, 24th July 1990, nine days before Iraq'sinvasion of Kuwait

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